Questions about pyramid or network marketing
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Praise be to Allah, and may peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah, his family, and his Companions. After that: Many questions have reached the Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Ifta regarding the work of pyramid marketing or network marketing companies, such as the Business and Gift Island company, whose work is summarized in persuading a person to buy a good or product, on the condition that he persuades others to buy, and those others persuade others to buy as well, and so on. The more layers of subscribers there are, the more commissions the first person receives, reaching thousands of riyals. And every subscriber who persuades those after him to subscribe in exchange for the large commissions he may obtain if he succeeds in adding new subscribers who follow him in the list of members, and this is what is called marketing
pyramid or network.
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Second:
Sahih al-Bukhari 5594
Muslim
Third:
[An-Nisa 4:29]
Fourth:
Sahih Muslim 102
Muslim
Sahih Muslim 1532a
Abdullah ibn Salam
for Abu Burdah
al-Bukhari
pyramid or network.
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Second:
the Prophet (ﷺ) forbade
نهى النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم عن الغررMuslim
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O you who have believed, do not consume one another's wealth unjustly
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لا تَأْكُلُوا أَمْوَالَكُمْ بَيْنَكُمْ بِالْبَاطِلِFourth:
He who deceives is not of me (is not my follower).
من غش فليس منيMuslim
Both parties in a business transaction have the right to annul it so long as they have not separated; and if they speak the truth and make everything clear they will be blessed in their transaction; but if they tell a lie and conceal anything the blessing on their transaction will be blotted out.
البيعان بالخيار ما لم يتفرقا، فإن صدقا وبينا بورك لهما في بيعهما، وإن كذبا وكتما محقت بركة بيعهماAbdullah ibn Salam
for Abu Burdah
al-Bukhari
Why did you not sit in your father's and mother's house and see whether you would be given a gift or not?
أفلا جلست في بيت أبيك وأمك فتنظر أيهدى إليك أم لا؟
Source
www.alifta.gov.sa
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